The Future of Dolls

From Carl Fox:  "And what of the future, when dolls as we have known them will be joined with the newest technology and ultimately result int he nondoll, the nonhuman, the nonrepresentational, amorphous, nontoxic cloud?  It has its advantages.  In a world hard pressed for space there will no longer be a need for storage.   Collecting will have either vanished form the earth or become a frenzied scene of hands clutching even at straws "(39). 

This was written in 1970.  I'm sure he know of Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451. I'm glad to see that nearly 50 years later, people still collect, even in an era of downsizing, where a lifetime of hard work and achievement is forced to end in a tiny room in some nondescript nursing home.